Abstract

LOPEZ ALVAREZ, SOLANYER  and  QUINTERO MEJIA, MARIETA. Sites of memory in Colombia: challenges of exemplary memory. Hallazgos [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.34, pp.209-240.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/2422409x.5243.

This article aims to make evident three sites of memory that have been built in Colombia. In them, tensions and struggles between official and local memories are emphasized; the latter are those built in territories where atrocious acts against humanity have occurred, and which allow the uncovering of voices and stories about the events experienced in the context of the armed conflict. The research was of qualitative in nature, in its hermeneutic dimension, through Quintero’s proposal for hermeneutic narrative research (PINH, in Spanish), which considers narrative to be the main nucleus of the work. It concludes with the challenges of exemplary memory as an ethical and political commitment that contributes to the construction of peace in Colombia, through the treatment of the past that demands truth, justice, reparation, and the never again of atrocious events. This allows for a different present and future.

Keywords : armed conflict; sites of memory; memory; exemplary memory; official memory; peace.

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